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Updated: May 14, 2025
"An' goin' swift, some hawgs, stray, half grown, 'bout twenty shoats feedin' in the woods my rustlin' in the bushes skeered 'em I reckon they sot out to run, possessed by the devil, like them the Scriptur' tells about." She paused again, panting, her hand to her heart. The disaffected juryman turned to one side, recrossing his legs, and spitting disparagingly on the ground.
He shuck him by the arm, but Jim just sat there, watchin’ the sun, the buzzards, and the dead sheep." "Was nothing done to this man Simpson?" "The cattle outfit that he done the dirty work for swore an alibi for him. Jim has been in hard luck ever since. He’s been rustlin’ cattle right along; but Lord, who can blame him?
"That night I hed things goin' in the kitchen an' the kettle on, an' I's hesitatin' whether to put two eggs in the omelet or three, when he comes home. He laid a eternal lot o' stuff on the kitchen table, without one word, an' went in where she was. I heard paper rustlin', an' then I heard her voice an' it wasn't no cryin', lemme say.
"Aw, hell! Thet's different. Every new rancher drives in a few unbranded calves an' keeps them. But stealin' stock thet's different. An' I'd as soon suspect my own son of rustlin' as Wils Moore." Belllounds spoke with a sincere and frank ardor of defense for a young man once employed by him and known to be honest. The significance of the comparison he used had not struck him.
I've knocked some horse sense into the child. There ain't no nonsense in Mandy, an' ye won't find her equal in the land for peddlin' fruit an' sech. I've kep' her rustlin' from morn till night. When a woman idles, the ole Nick gits away with her mighty quick. I've salted that down many a long year. No, sir, Mandy is mine, an' Mandy will do jest as I say. She minds me well, does Mandy.
"An' I take it particular kind of this old she rustlin' off with her cub. She-bears with cubs are dangerous." The next place to stir Helen to enthusiasm was the glen at the bottom of this canuon.
"New, he's deliverin' cattle to thet Cuban ship," replied another. "Big deal on, hey?" "Some big. Rugg says the boss hed an order fer fifteen thousand." "Say, that order'll take a year to fill." "New. Hardin is in cahoots with Bland. Between 'em they'll fill orders bigger 'n thet." "Wondered what Hardin was rustlin' in here fer."
" that was way back in the sixties, about the time of the war," he was saying. "Rustlin' cattle wasn't nuthin' then to what it is now. An' times is rougher these days. This gun-throwin' has come to be a disease. Men have an itch for the draw same as they used to have fer poker. The only real gambler outside of greasers we ever had here was Bill, an' I presume Bill is burnin' now."
It's a new one on me, an' I've seen some ridin' an' rustlin'. It jest takes one of them God-fearin' Mormons to think of devilish tricks." "Lassiter, might not this trick be done by Oldring's men?" asked Jane, ever grasping at straws. "It might be, but it ain't," replied Lassiter. "Oldring's an honest thief. He don't skulk behind ridges to scatter your cattle to the four winds.
He wouldn't pay any particular attention to each separate glory that made up the seen blue sky, green fields, sunshine, white clouds, sparklin' waters, rustlin' trees, wavin' grass, roses, green fields, and so forth and so forth. No, it would all mingle in one dazzlin' picture before his astounded eyeballs. So it had been with us, or with me, at any rate.
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